Israel Aerospace Industries Delivers Revolutionary Airplane Towing Vehicle with Wind River Solution
August 11 2015 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
- Wind River VxWorks Cert Platform powers
TaxiBot semi-autonomous airplane towing vehicle.
- TaxiBot has the potential to save the
airlines hundreds of millions in fuel costs, as well as
significantly reduce CO2 emissions and foreign-object damage to jet
engines.
- Wind River comprehensive solution meets
avionics certification requirements and reduces certification risk
for Israel Aerospace Industries.
Wind River®, a global leader in
delivering software for the Internet of Things (IoT), has announced
that Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), the largest
government-owned defense and aerospace company in Israel, relied on
the Wind River VxWorks® Cert Platform real-time operating system
(RTOS) and Wind River Professional Services for its innovative
semi-autonomous airplane towing vehicle, TaxiBot.
IAI offers solutions for a variety of requirements in space,
air, land, sea, and cyberspace, for both commercial and defense
applications. In collaboration with Airbus and TLD Group, the
company developed the TaxiBot, which enables airplanes to taxi from
the gate to the runway without using their own engines,
dramatically reducing fuel consumption and costs, CO2 emissions,
and noise.
According to IAI, TaxiBot has the potential to save the airlines
hundreds of millions in fuel costs and a reduction in
foreign-object damage to jet engines. At the Heathrow Airport,
British Airways is saving more than 20 million dollars per year.
The vehicle’s electric driving system cuts CO2 emissions by as much
as 85% compared to airplanes waiting for takeoff. And carriers can
recoup their investment in about 18 months.
From a technology perspective, the challenge for IAI was to
optimize control capabilities while achieving operational
simplicity; and from a certification perspective, the challenge was
to achieve safety certification under avionics software standard
DO-178B. With VxWorks Cert Platform and Professional Services, Wind
River represented a one-stop shop for everything from the operating
system to support and services, all the way through
certification.
“Addressing our challenges started with the choice of an
operating system and development partner that could not only meet
the exacting performance demands of the TaxiBot, but also
streamline the certification process, reduce licensing costs, and
accelerate development,” said Ran Braier, project director at IAI.
“We found VxWorks to be the most reliable operating system to meet
our requirements; it enabled us to ensure safety using a
multi-redundancy approach with software at the heart of the system.
Today we can say with confidence we are at least five years ahead
of our competitors.”
“Because TaxiBot was an unprecedented solution, IAI needed a
partner like Wind River that was experienced and committed to
helping them deliver something completely new to the industry, and
that could meet their vision for the coming decades and beyond,”
said Dinyar Dastoor, vice president and general manager of
operating system platforms at Wind River. “Our certifiable,
licensed software and services have proven reliable in countless
aviation and transportation applications in which safety is
critical.”
Part of the Wind River product portfolio of safe and secure
operating systems, VxWorks Cert Platform is an RTOS for
safety-critical applications that require RTCA DO-178, EUROCAE
ED-12, or IEC 61508 certification evidence in avionics,
transportation, industrial automation, and medical device
industries.
To learn more about Wind River VxWorks Cert Platform, visit
http://tinyurl.com/VxWorksCert. For more information about Wind
River Professional Services, visit
http://tinyurl.com/WindRiverPS.
About Wind River
Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel® Corporation
(NASDAQ:INTC), is a global leader in delivering software for the
Internet of Things. The company has been pioneering computing
inside embedded devices since 1981, and its technology is found in
more than 2 billion products. Wind River offers a comprehensive
portfolio of solutions for addressing the system-level challenges
and opportunities of IoT that is backed by world-class global
professional services, award-winning customer support, and a broad
partner ecosystem. Wind River delivers the software and expertise
that enables the innovation and deployment of safe, secure, and
reliable intelligent systems. To learn more, visit
www.windriver.com.
Wind River is a trademark or registered trademark of Wind River
Systems, Inc. and its affiliates. Other names may be the trademarks
of their respective owners.
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